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Thank you for stopping by and checking out '{siteTitle}'.
'{siteTitle}' is a collection of http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html[free software]
for poker and is written and maintained by http://www.tomcort.com/[Thomas Cort]. 
The '{siteTitle}' project was founded in 2005 to create a poker server
and poker bot programming framework. It has evolved since then and is
currently undergoing a major re-write. The new library, *libtinypoker*,
just had its first release. The new server, *tinypokerd*, needs
additional game logic. The target release date for *tinypokerd*
is July 1, 2008.

.Features
- Secure client/server communications with Transport Layer Security.
- Support for Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and version 6 (IPv6).
- User authentication with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM).
- Compatible with existing Internet Poker Protocol 2.0 Implementations.
- Freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. 

News
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April 13, 2008 - libtinypoker 20080413 Snapshot Available
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A development snapshot of *libtinypoker* is now available                         
in the http://tinypoker.org/download.html[downloads] section.
The snapshot was created so that interested developers could follow the new
http://tinypoker.org/api.html[tutorial] without having to do a checkout from
http://tinypoker.org/subversion.html[subversion]. Within the next few weeks
the hand evaluator and ranking features should be complete enough for a formal
release. As always, *libtinypoker* is http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html[free software]
and is licensed under the terms of the
http://tinypoker.org/gpl-3.html[GNU General Public License version 3 or Later].


April 1, 2008 - libtinypoker 0.0.0 Released
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The first release of *libtinypoker* is now available
in the http://tinypoker.org/download.html[downloads] section.
*libtinypoker* provides application programming interfaces (APIs) to applications
implementing the Internet Poker Protocol (IPP) Version 2.0. The library
provides a robust communications framework that allows clients and servers
to communicate over secure transport layer sockets (TLS) using Internet
Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and/or Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
The underlying code is designed to gracefully handle network problems
such as unexpected disconnections and bad input. IPP message validation,
normalization and parsing functions are available to developers as are
several predefined types for representing poker games, players and cards.
*libtinypoker* is http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html[free software]
and is licensed under the terms of the
http://tinypoker.org/gpl-3.html[GNU General Public License version 3 or Later].